Did Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush regret using the term "anchor babies" earlier this month to refer to United States-born children of immigrants?

"I don't," he said, the Huffington Postreported on Aug. 20. "Do you have a better term?"

He added that he thought it was "ludicrous" that the term is considered derogatory, and that he believes the term more accurately refers to fraudulent behavior "more related to Asian people," according to CNN.

Many were upset by Bush's comments, but one Los Angeles teen decided to focus not on criticizing a single candidate, but productively exposing the truth about the Asian-American experience through the hashtag #MyAsianAmericanStory.

Jason Fong, 15, launched the hashtag with his own story on Monday night and others joined him.

I was born in LA to a dad from NYC and a mom who immigrated from Korea. #MyAsianAmericanStory @reappropriate

My grandfather immigrated from China to Cuba and then to NYC in 1943. #MyAsianAmericanStory

People shared stories of their families' service to the United States:

My dad immigrated fr China, changed his name to be more Americanized and served 20 years in the @USNavy. #sacrifice #MyAsianAmericanStory

MyAsianAmericanStory Proud Hmong American woman, my dad fought along side American GIs in Laos during the Vietnam War

My grandparents, despite being from & in the Philippines, worked for the U.S. Army during WWII and became veterans. #MyAsianAmericanStory

On feeling caught between identities:

as an Asian kid, u had to decide: are u gonna go "white" or "black"? #MyAsianAmericanStory @emergingus @DefineAmerican

I'm still trying to figure out how to reconcile the fact that I'll never be "American enough" or "Japanese enough". #MyAsianAmericanStory

Being told my skin was too dark to really be Asian and having my identity erased because of it. #MyAsianAmericanStory

When your own family shames you for 'not being Asian enough' but you also get shamed for 'not being white enough'. #MyAsianAmericanStory

Facing racist stereotypes, slurs and blatant ignorance:

At 18 so proud to be voting for 1st time then being stopped at door: "Do you know you have to be American to vote?" MyAsianAmericanStory

MyAsianAmericanStory is a lifetime of staring at TV and movie screens and never seeing myself reflected back at me.

Being asked 100s of times as a kid, "Do you know karate?" #MyAsianAmericanStory

BA in English, 17 years in publishing/media work & I still get challenged on English comprehension #MyAsianAmericanStory

MyAsianAmericanStory being called "chink" growing up in Nebraska. Or worse, hearing it and having to decide whether to out myself as Asian

MyAsianAmericanStory was people saying that "Indian isn't really Asian though, is it?"

Explaining to people where Trinidad is and that yes Asian people live there too and Asians can also be Brown. #MyAsianAmericanStory

And, of course, overcoming those obstacles to achieve great things:

now I'm a first-gen college student at Stanford who'll be a teacher, disrupting cycles of trauma in poc communities #MyAsianAmericanStory

Spoke no English when I immigrated at age 6. Now I teach college students how to critically think in English. #MyAsianAmericanStory

Considering that the number of Asian-Americans is projected to double to more than 47 million by 2060, politicians and American citizens alike would do well to better understand the Asian-American experience — beyond these stereotypes and certainly beyond immigration.

"I hope that people can look at this tag, and know that Asians and Asian-Americans are part of the American narrative," Fong told the Los Angeles Times. "Our opinions and our stories matter just as much as those who immigrated less recently."